On a side note, if anyone needs some old Qube 3's please contact me
off-list. I may have some available that are otherwise going to the
recycle bin.
-Adam
On 2/25/07, Howie Dines <howie (at mark) howie.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi there again,
>
> I've just been thinking about what you are wanting to do.
> You are "thinking of getting a Qube 3" and you mentioned in your post on Mon
> 19th
>
> "My main use would be for fileserver/backup server"
>
> I would like to think that a fileserver/backup server would be behind a
> firewall, so what's wrong with using the original Qube 3 software load?
> Reloaded on bigger drive(s)
>
> Back to your original plan,
> I've been looking for a page that showed step by step hardware upgrades on a
> Qube 3 but I can't find it yet. It went into detail about HDD replacement
> and the limitations etc..
>
> This seems to be a very good starting point for OS Office for you
> http://www.osoffice.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1677&sid=c6d15c21613b23ef94e
> 7ce3c74248c08
>
> Best Regards,
> Howie
>
> http://www.dincom.co.uk/bq
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian McEwen [mailto:bmcewen (at mark) comcast.net]
> Sent: 25 February 2007 22:57
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:08942] Qube 3 install
>
>
> Ok, a Qube 3 is on the way.
>
> I'm going to try StrongBolt or CentOS/BQ. Is there support for the buttons
> and LCD readily other than through StrongBolt?
>
> So, here is what I would like to try to do, comments welcome. I'm just
> trying to get an idea of what is reasonable and what is not so I don't waste
> too much time or get frustrated.
>
> -- Install 2 120gig drives
>
> hmm... I'm not sure what I have kicking around in the spare parts
> bin, but matched drives are not likely to be there (although I'd likely use
> RAID1, still....). I want capability for RAID; and I can get 120gig 2.5"
> drives for pretty cheap on sale, barring a blowout sale of the last of 3.5"
> inventory somewhere (I knew I should have bought some a few months ago).
> The thought of laptop drives doesn't scare me (much) as long as the OS
> supports atactl (and mount has appropriate parameters available as well) so
> I can set them to power down with inactivity- I'm not convinced 2.5" drives
> are meant to run
> all the time as in a workstation. Does this seem possible?
>
> I think 3.5" 120gig will be hard to find reasonably, given that 400gig
> drives are the norm now (I assume 120gig is a limit based on my researching,
> if that isn't right it will be good to know).
>
> -- Pick StrongBolt, BQ, or Ubuntu--
> - which seems to have most frequent updates/patches?
> - any gotchas with yum or apt?
> I have found a couple very big problems with NetBSD/ pkgsrc, but
> if you know what to avoid it is very nice.
>
> -- SMTP (hopefully postfix) / sftpd/ httpd / IMAP/ POP3 / samba / icecast /
> tripwire / some molecular biology tools that run under un*x.
> All would be fun; main reason for this is for sftpd and httpd.
> There were some helpful post about ways to provide NAS earlier, what about
> others above?
>
> -- outgoing mail would have to relay through another account, since I'm in a
> dynamic IP block. How readily is that set up/ is it directly supported by
> the GUI if I choose BQ/ Strongbolt? I can get it going from Ubuntu with
> Postfix, or depending on how working from the command line might break the
> GUI, but if I'm going with a non- Ubuntu install the GUI might as well stay
> working or there is no point to it.
>
> -- Other common headaches? I'm not sure how many people have put BQ/
> Strongbolt on the Qube 3, but it looks like there is active development to
> get it documented and some recent success stories.
>
> I'll be quiet from now on until I have hardware in hand and get
> stuck- but thanks for thoughts-
>
> Brian
>
>
>
>
>
>
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